ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
Links to free online learning opportunities for LANL employees and students.
Free learning resources
This website is established and maintained by the Institute for Materials Science for collection of LANL-wide online learning resources. This is a work in progress. We encourage your comments and suggestions at kshea@lanl.gov. Below, we hope you find resources that will assist those working from home or exploring other learning avenues. Note that we try to cite resources that can be viewed at no cost.
Lots of online lectures are available on youtube including university courses and commercial software tutorials (in most cases you can download trial versions of the commercial software). Below, you will find some of the best examples of these resources. As we strive to provide the best opportunities for you, we welcome your feedback on which of these resources you did and did not like, or if there is anything you think we should add.
STEM TOPICSQuantum Mechanics
- Stanford online Quantum Mechanics class taught by David Miller.
Signal Processing
- Digital Signal Processing intro taught by Allen Downey (tied to python programming).
- Digital Signal Processing Lectures by Rich Radke - from an electrical engineering course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (with Matlab examples).
- Get Started with Signal Processing Toolbox.
Statistics
- Statquest - Graphical presentation.
- Sparsity - A compressed overview of sparsity.
Machine Learning
- Machine learning onramp through Matlab Academy Mathworks. LANL Engineering Institute students recommend this Machine Learning onramp.
- Statquest - An epic journey through statistics and machine learning!!!
- SimpliLearn - Machine Learning - full course in 7 hours.
- Support vector machines.
Computer Aided Design
- Solidworks (Lab’s preferred software) - Youtube Solidworks tutorials.
- AutoCAD - Link to AutoCAD free training resources.
- AutoCAD for Students - Download a free trial and student version.
Finite Element Modeling
- ABAQUS has online training and free student versions.
- University of Michigan - Finite Element Method.
- MIT Finite Element Procedures for Solids and Structures, Linear Analysis.
- MIT Finite Element Procedures for Solids and Structures, NonLinear Analysis.
- Finite Element Procedures 2nd edition.
- COMSOL - COMSOL Free Days
Convex Optimization
- Convex Optimization.
Useful Programming Capability
- National Instruments (NI) - Labview software and NI data acquisition hardware are used extensively at LANL.
- O'Reilly's has excellent training material on a variety of computer languages and programming topics.
- Matlab training available through Mathworks and the Matlab Academy. Matlab Academy has a series of onramp interactive tutorials: 1. Matlab, 2. Simulink, 3. Machine Learning, 4. Deep Learning, 5. State flow.
- Octave
- Python
- Labview - One can download a free trial of Labview from the National instruments website (Labview may be difficult to play with without additional electronic interfaces).
Engineering Resources
- IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC)
GENERAL UNIVERSITY CLASSES
Online University Classes
- Free Online Courses | Coursera.
- edX | Free Online Courses by Harvard, MIT, and more.
- Khan Academy.
SELF HELP
Science of Happiness
Yale's online "Science of Happiness" class (this requires sign up through Coursera).
